Two little girls in blue

Collected by Merlin Mitchell
Transcribed by Mary C. Parler
Reel 79, Item 3
Two Little Girls in Blue
An old man gazed on a photy-graph
In a locket he'd worn for years;
His nephew asked the reason why
The photo caused them tears;
Come listen, he said, I'll tell to you
A story that's strange but true,
Your father and I at school one day
Met two little girls in blue.
Chorus
Two little girls in blue, lad
Two little girls in blue,
They were sisters, we were brothers,
And we learned to love the two;
One of those girls in blue, lad
Won your father's heart,
Became your mother, I married the other,
And we have wandered apart.
This picture is one of those girls, he said,
To me she was oncst a wife,
I thought her unfaithful, we quarreled, lad,
And parted that night for life,
'Twas fancy of jealousy wronged a heart,
A heart that were good and true,
For two better girls ne'er lived than they,
Those two little girls in blue.
Tom Boyd
Patrick, Ark.
November 3, 1950
Chorus

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Collected by Merlin Mitchell
Transcribed by Mary C. Parler
Reel 79, Item 3
Two Little Girls in Blue
An old man gazed on a photy-graph
In a locket he'd worn for years;
His nephew asked the reason why
The photo caused them tears;
Come listen, he said, I'll tell to you
A story that's strange but true,
Your father and I at school one day
Met two little girls in blue.
Chorus
Two little girls in blue, lad
Two little girls in blue,
They were sisters, we were brothers,
And we learned to love the two;
One of those girls in blue, lad
Won your father's heart,
Became your mother, I married the other,
And we have wandered apart.
This picture is one of those girls, he said,
To me she was oncst a wife,
I thought her unfaithful, we quarreled, lad,
And parted that night for life,
'Twas fancy of jealousy wronged a heart,
A heart that were good and true,
For two better girls ne'er lived than they,
Those two little girls in blue.
Tom Boyd
Patrick, Ark.
November 3, 1950
Chorus